內容簡介
《英國文學與文化》由上篇文化篇和下篇文學篇組成。上篇著重從聖經、希臘神話和英國社會的角度，來解讀英國文學作品和文學史發展特徵；下篇按文學的三大主要文類編排，旨在指導學生欣賞英國詩歌、英國小說和英國戲劇。每章由導讀、文本和思考題組成，既有總體引導，又有文本例釋，配以練習題，以深化理解。教材內容豐富、選材廣泛，可作為高校非英語專業選修課程的教材或外語學院英語專業英國文學課程的參考書，也是廣大英語自學者和英國文學愛好者的可選讀物。
內容目錄
Part One
Chapter One The Bible and British Literature
Introduction to the Bible
Section One: Important Biblical Characters
Selected Reading: Paradise Lost by John Milton
Section Two: Important Biblical Themes——Christian Virtues
Selected Reading: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Section Three: Biblical Imagery
Selected Reading: Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Chapter Two Greek Mythology and British Literature
Introduction to Greek Mythology
Greek Mythology in British Literature
Selected Readings
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Sonnet XXXIII: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint by John Milton
The Garden by Andrew Marvell
Chapter Three British Society and British Literature
Section One: English Renaissance and Humanism
Selected Reading: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Section Two: Metaphysical Poetry and English Society in the Early 17 Century
Selected Reading: A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning by John Donne
Section Three: Literature in English Revolution and Restoration Period
Selected Reading: Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Section Four: Neo-Classicism
Selected Reading: Epigrams by Alexander Pope
Section Five: English Romanticism
Selected Reading: The Isles of Greece by Lord Byron
Section Six: Critical Realism
Selected Reading: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Section Seven: Aestheticism
Selected Reading: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Section Eight: British Modernism
Selected Reading: Araby by James Joyce
Part Two
Chapter Four British Poetry
Key Questions to the Art of Poetry
Sample Analysis .. The Lake Isle oflnnisfree by William Butler Yeats
Selected Readings
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
Sonnet 43 by William Shakespeare
Death, Be Not Proud by John Donne
A Red Red Rose by Robert Bums
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
When We Two Parted by George Gordon Byron
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Eagle: A Fragment by Alfred Tennyson
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Chapter Five British Fiction
Key Questions to the Art of Fiction
Selected Readings
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Sons and Lovers by Lawrence
Chapter Six British Drama
Key Questions to the Art of Drama
Selected Readings
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
